The National Book Award finalists were announced today.
Fiction
Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)
Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House)
Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.)
Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)
Marcel Theroux, Far North (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Non-Fiction
David M. Carroll, Following the Water: [...]
Mmmm . . . If you are just waking up or have already been up for a few hours or all day, this smoothie is the perfect start for Dewey’s 24 Hour Read-a-thon!
When I interviewed Sara Zarr, author of Sweethearts and Story of a Girl, I, as always, asked Sara to share a favorite recipe [...]
Ever since I saw the cover of Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson I knew that I had to read it. It’s so beautiful that I was in love with it before I even opened it. It’s perfect. It’s got the ragged edges and the typeface is gorgeous. Chains is a National Book Award nominee and [...]
The National Book Award Winners were announced today.
Fiction
Winner:
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
Finalists:
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Home by Marilynne Robinson
The End by Savatore Scibona
Non-Fiction
WINNER:
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
Finalists:
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
The Dark Side: The Inside [...]
About four years ago, I had the pleasure of listening to Richard Peck present a variety of workshops about writing. Ever since then, I’ve been meaning to pick up something that he wrote. It took me a while but I finally did.
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck is a 1999 Newbery Honor book [...]
